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I watched the last quarter of the New Orleans Saints vs. Chicago Bears game and as a Packers fan, I was crushed by the scoreline. I'm not a sore guy that lets a rivalry get in the way of history OR of a teams hard work, it's not like they're giving out Superbowl invitations at any ol' football team. Could Oakland or Detroit BE any further away?
I watched all of the New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts game and I seriously hadn't watched such an interesting game in all my life. End-to-end stuff and lets not forget the individual battles on offer, this game had it all, except my runner-up team the Pats making it 4 out of 6 on reaching "The Big One".
Sure my hopes and dreams were down on the two losing teams (I bet I get stick from Saints and Pats fans alike saying my support jinxed them :p), but that doesn't make me any less likely to watch a Superbowl game without them in it.
And then the big headline surrounding Superbowl XLI now is... "The first (and second) African-American head coach to lead a team to the Superbowl", ok, that's all I heard come the end of both games respectively. I mean when presented with the NFC Championship Trophy, that's all FOX could say, "Lovie, well done, the first African-American head coach to lead a team to the Superbowl". Then I watch the CBS version of the same ceremony, jus replace Lovie with Tony and then first with second, the funny difference was that at the studio, with all the panel saying "African American", Shannon Sharpe just comes out with "Black"... well made me chuckle.
Anywho, to my point. Ok, it's great, two guys of a "downtrodden in the past" (empathasis on past) race have made it to the place 30 other teams couldn't. I understand (well I don't, where's the big deal?), they got there, but the last time I checked, some 52 man roster had a hand in it, a general manager, an owner, a couple of fans maybe if support is your thing, I dunno.
As a guy of "African descent", I feel it's kinda bad how people are making such a big deal of it, by singling out the colour of the mens skin, isn't it drawing EXTRA attention than if they were "caucasian"? Wasn't that what racism was? Instead for evil-ways, it's for EXTRA praise, just lets move on as you were.
It's great that "yet another barrier has been broken", but lets take a moment to see that, then lets continue with the football. I just hope this doesn't become the footnote of this years Superbowl that's all. To me, it's just two guys with two teams with the best form record over the last three weeks, end of.
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